Bird Pinkerton

And so Amy says it's just hard to parse.

And so studying microchimera is so hard because you have to find just like a few cells in a million, untangle this whole intergenerational jumble, and then figure out like what those cells are doing, what they're up to.

And that's part of why this research is going so slowly.

And I find it, I mean, I find it like, I guess there's something about it that

Like, there might be things that we'd never fully understand here, right?

Like, we are potentially never going to be able to completely untangle the way that, like, my cells and my sister's cells and the cells from your miscarriages have affected your body.

Like, it's possible it's always going to remain kind of like a... like a parent-child relationship, right?

Like, on a tiny scale, there'll be sort of pushing and pulling and...

hurting and healing and, you know, it's a relationship we can explore forever and never fully untangle.

I'm beginning to realize where I came from.

It's beginning to make sense that I have maybe some of your cells in my body.

Yeah.

And our brain.

Question.

Would you say I'm overall more of like a scar healing helper or an autoimmune disease trigger of a child?

We love you.

I love you.

And I assume that's it.

We're done.

Yeah, I think that's it.